If you listen very carefully to this poor-quality clip, you can hear the Daily Show host Jon Stewart, freed from the bad-language constraints of television, offering a few frank opinions about Sarah Palin to an audience of students in Boston at the weekend. ("I like the woods," he begins. "I just don't know if I would pull my vice-president out of the woods randomly." Then it gets sweary.) He's particularly exercised by her remarks last week distinguishing "the real America" from the rest -- "real", of course, meaning "parts that vote Republican reliably." At the Weekly Standard, Mary Katherine Ham is naturally furious that Stewart's foul language hasn't been condemned in the media to the same extent as bigoted comments from McCain/Palin supporters at rallies -- which is a fair point, apart from the fact that Stewart's not being racist or Islamophobic, and that it's a comedy gig, not an Obama rally, and, well, there are no parallels at all really when you think about it but never mind about that, and anyway aren't liberals terrible, terrible people? [via The Weekly Standard]